Information Minister Attaullah Tarar provided an update on Operation Ghazab lil-Haq, saying 133 Afghan Taliban operatives were killed and more than 200 were injured.

“Afghan Taliban defence targets in Kabul, Paktia, and Kandahar were targeted, with the possibility of further casualties,” he said.

“Twenty-seven posts of the Afghan Taliban regime destroyed, 9 posts captured,” he said.

The minister further said that two corp headquarters, three brigade headquarters, two ammunition depots, one logistics base, three battalion headquarters, two sector headquarters, and more than 80 tanks, artillery guns and armoured personnel vehicles had been destroyed.

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